Rust Player Count
70,300 playing now

Online176.9.0.214:27018checked 9m ago

Rust

moddedoxide
Players now 0/ 40 0% full
7-day average 0 peak 2
Rank #9,048 top 41%
Last wipe 12d ago no schedule published
Next wipe – too few wipes seen yet

Players

AveragePeak
0123414:0023:0008:0018:0003:0012:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

02040608014:0023:0008:0018:0003:0012:00

48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep25 Sep30 Sep4 Oct9 Oct14 Oct

Top 41% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Wipe-day peak 2 players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 42 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 04:26 UTC12d ago 2 – running 0

Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.

Similar servers

the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes
RETRO RUST #3 Х5|MAX 5|LOOT+|CRAFT WIPE 8.10EU · groups of 5 · weekly · 87 on average 73/ 250
SHELBY RUST Х5 MAX5 |LOOT+|SHOP|EVENT|WIPE 13.10EU · groups of 5 · 30 on average 66/ 110
红果十倍/10.13号新开/爆枪/新人入门EA · groups of 6 · weekly · 10 on average 21/ 200
East Coast Vanilla [no decay][heli/boat spawns][noobs welcome]groups of 6 · monthly · 2 on average 2/ 50
MAD RUSTgroups of 5 · weekly · 2 on average 5/ 200
【辐射国度】月清养老服EA · groups of 6 · 2 on average 2/ 150

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules, map and settings

Which rules govern Rust?

A gather rate is absent from the name of Rust. Group size is limited to 5 players. The server runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it under Modded, because plugins or settings alter the game. Plugins: Oxide. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

What map is used on Rust?

The game generates a procedural map of size 5,000 with seed 1337 for Rust. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map. You can see the map name here: ATHLON 5000.

Tags and filters

Where can Rust be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?

The Rust Player Count lists that Rust fits are: Modded Rust servers. You can find it on the server list using these filters: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What is the meaning of the tags on Rust?

The game's server browser reads these tags from Rust: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival experience; mp40 (Max players): 40 slots are available; ts5 (Group limit): You can have up to 5 players per team; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs167781 (Build): It runs on game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): This server is Modded; plugins or settings affect how it plays. The tags also include its current players, its queue and when its world was made, shown at the top of this page.

Player numbers

How many players does Rust have?

0 of 40 slots are filled on Rust right now. The average player count for the last seven days is 0, and the highest point was 2.

How does Rust compare in server rankings?

Rust is in the top 41% of all ranked servers with a rank of #9,048 for player hours over the past seven days.

Server information

What is the uptime and reliability of Rust?

Rust is currently online. It reports an uptime that puts the last restart at roughly 7 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. Its first appearance in Rust Player Count was on 13 September 2026.

What is the Rust version for Rust?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux is what Rust uses. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.

What is the location of Rust?

There is no region published by Rust. Rust Player Count displays the location a server claims, not the physical location of the machine. You can reach it at 176.9.0.214:27018.

Is Rust lag-free?

Over the last 48 hours, the average server fps was 60, and it never dropped below 60. The maximum number of entities it carried was 13,376, which includes buildings, deployables and everything else. At its highest, it used 3,190 MB of memory. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.

Wipe information

What should you expect on Rust during a wipe?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest times averaged 2 players. 42 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

When does Rust wipe?

With so few of Rust's wipes on record, its rhythm remains unclear. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC it comes next. The world in play was created 12 days 9 hours ago.

Join the server

What is the process to join Rust?

Joining is done by opening the console (F1) and running client.connect 176.9.0.214:27018. Another way is the Launch Rust option on this page, which uses Steam to start Rust and put you in.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts5,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode The usual Rust survival experience.
mp40
Max players 40 slots are available.
ts5
Group limit You can have up to 5 players per team.
v2634
Protocol Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect.
cs167781
Build It runs on game build 167781.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.
^z
Modded This server is Modded; plugins or settings affect how it plays.

Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.